Sorry, but that doesn’t make any sense. The ratio between votes and total visitors here is irrelevant. There is always only a minority which actively participate, on any subject - so following your argument we couldn’t take any decision cause too few people participated in it.
Sorry, but PG often doesn’t make decisions based on consensus. When you or the team wanted something - like including Mull- you do it despite huge backlash.
Plus, achieving consensus would require more tools, and a forum thread is not the best way to do this.